Flynn and Freckles
| Byte-sized review | A platform adventure best left marooned on a deep sea ocean island |
| Review | I adore 2D/3D colourful platformers (next to RPG’s it’s my second favorite genre). In fact some of my favorite gaming memories consist of myself huddling around the NES, SEGA Mega Drive, Playstation 1 and 2 playing through each systems latest colourful platformer, often staying up into the wee hours of the morning getting lost in each ones world. While the genre has fallen out of favor somewhat unfortunately with the big publishers thankfully we have indie game studios trying to rekindle the flame and through that we have seen a popular resurgence with 2D 8/16 bit adventures such as Shovel Knight and The Messenger and in the 3D realm with the brilliant A Hat in Time to the mediocre and somewhat disappointing Yooka-Laylee (disappointing considering the talent behind this one) to even Crash Bandicoot making an appearance on modern systems with the well received Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy. The moment I saw Flynn and Freckles pop up on the Steam store I knew I immediately had to give it a try. Sadly, and really it pains me to do this because I can see the developers clearly have the same love for the genre as I do even citing Spyro, Guybrush and Crash in the credits as inspiration for the game, I just can’t recommend this game. While the PS2 aesthetics didn’t bother me in the slightest (I found the graphics quite charming in a simple way) what is unfortunate is how bland and unremarkable the adventure is. Had this released in the early noughties it would probably have gone completely unnoticed as well and while it tries to pay homage to the era it does nothing to make it stand out. Coupled with terrible animations (Flynn walks like he has a carrot stuck up his backside) and a dull-as-dishwater plot (young pirate searches for the treasure of one fabled pirate), I could have probably gotten over those issues and simply given the game a “meh” rating if it were not for the one mechanic that simply ruins it all, a mechanic you need to absolutely nail in a platform adventure, you know - the jumping bits. Jumping bits that require precision but that are totally broken. I spend more time dying and getting frustrated with the jumping, especially since the game is quite puzzle heavy (nothing taxing), but often requires that the jumping mechanic actually works, which it doesn’t. Lots of trial and error ensured much to my chagrin. The second major issue I have with this game is that it only saves periodically but not enough (mostly only when you enter a new area) and should you die (and you will thanks to the broken jumping mechanic) you are often forced to replay through large sections, having to resolve puzzles you just solved (and often struggled to solve because of the jumping mechanic working against you). This ultimately ends up sinking this adventure. |
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Read More: Best Pirates Colorful Games.
TL;DR - it’s busted on a fundamental level. Due to serious collision detection problems, your character freezes on landing from a jump, or falls through the platform, or fails to jump. The level design does not account for this. I did not finish the game because my save file has permanently preserved or not preserved the state of various level elements in such a way that it can’t be completed anymore, with no option to restart the level. Do not buy this game.
The game has crippling problems with collision detection, even with recognizing whether you have landed from a jump, and so you can receive fall damage from a relatively small fall. The collision detection problems also make your character come to a dead stop for like a fifth of a second on landing, and make you simply slide off some platforms without jumping, or fall through solid platforms when falling fast enough.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
Shores of Plunder
ABOUT
Shores of Plunder is a fast-paced party game where you and up to 3 of your mateys can battle, race and plunder as much booty as you can before the clock runs out. After each round you will return to your pirate ship where you can hang out and enjoy pirate-themed shenanigans.
GAMEPLAY
The matches are fast, fun and full of classic pirate shenanigans. While some players may want to collect as much treasure as they can, as fast as they can, others may want to pirate their way through it by knocking coins out of their opponents in cutlass swinging sword fights, flintlock blasting gun battles, sneaky explosive blasts from powder kegs, and other devious tactics. Many of the combat mechanics are still under development and will be added throughout Early Access with player feedback taken in to mind.
MULTIPLAYER
Shores of Plunder is all about having good old fashioned pirate themed fun whether you want to play solo or with your friends, family and colleagues. The online gameplay will be focused around an invite-only style of matchmaking so that players can enjoy a social online experience within a safe environment. Throughout Early Access new and improved lobby and matchmaking features will be added and adjusted with player feedback taken in to account.
MORE PIRATES!
As the game develops through Early Access there will eventually be are many pirates to choose from, including famous pirates from history. Each of these pirates will come with the ability to select a unique special skill that has a limited number of uses.
Designing your own custom tailored pirate will be a big part of Shores of Plunder and one of the biggest features that will be developed throughout Early Access is giving players the ability to customize everything from the hat they wear right down to whether or not they want to walk on a peg leg. Players will also be able to cash in the coins they earned to buy additional cosmetic items. The player customization and cosmetic store is currently unavailable but will be developed and adjusted throughout Early Access with player feedback taken in to account.
I NEED SOME RUM!
Pirates will do just about anything for a bottle of rum and once yours runs out of their special skill they will refuse to do it again until they’ve had some more rum. Replenish the skills by finding one of the many bottles of rum that are stashed around the island and drink it back. The player will have to take caution because while drinking rum refills the skills, it will also trigger a temporary drunkenness effect which renders the pirate vulnerable to attacks from any nearby players as they stumble around recklessly.
SOCIAL
Between matches the pirates will be returned to the deck of ship where they can socialize, brawl and have fun. Once the players are ready for another match they simply hop in to a cannon to trigger the countdown timer which will blast the players to shore.
Throughout Early Access new social features will be added such as playing music, drinking rum, gamble their coins away with mini games and more.
Read More: Best Pirates Early Access Games.
Captain Pegleg
On their journey across the South Pacific, something incredible happens to Captain Pegleg and his crew. They find themselves stranded on an island, where our Captain goes on a treasure hunt and tries to hijack a new ship to escape while his crew is…. doing absolutely nothing!?
Captain Pegleg needs you to join him on this challenging journey. Help him find treasures and escape the island.
*** IGDA Rating 8.2/10 ***
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS:
• 2.5D platformer
• 40+ levels - challenging and fun
Read More: Best Pirates Parody Games.
VR Pirates of the Caribbean Life Experience
‘VR Pirates of the Caribbean Life Experience’ is a small collection of weird scenes, with an ever-so-slight connection to water. In fact, apart from them all featuring water in some way they are not linked in any way. They are not fun, they are not educational, not interesting and they are not relaxing. Once again this developer hammers a nail into PCVR’s death with yet another app that makes it looks pointless. To say I don’t recommend this (or anything this developer makes) would be an understatement. Oh, and all the text was in Chinese anyway. I think it just goes to show an Oxford education isn’t worth shit.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Cloud Escape
What started as a simple game jam project transformed into a full-fledged video game. Cloud Escape is a stylized 3D precision platformer where every mistake will be punished. The game world features different themed areas, each of which offers unique scenery, mechanics, obstacles and traps. Are you destined to escape the clouds?
2 Game Modes
The goal is the same in both game modes: reach the end as fast as possible! In Normal Mode, you can simply focus on reaching the end. In Hard Mode, on the other hand, the gate in front of the end is locked. Collect all coins to unlock the gate and then reach the end.
For Dedicated Players
You love the challenge and want to put your skills to the test? Countless traps and obstacles await you in the different areas. The world of Cloud Escape offers platforming, moving platforms, physics puzzles, projectiles, flamethrowers, blades, saws, spectral phenomena, bumpers and much more.
For Speedrunners
For all players who like to constantly improve their best time: Cloud Escape was also developed for speedrunners. In addition to a death counter, the game also has a very precise timer. Run by run, you optimize your routes and discover new possibilities to further optimize your personal best time.
Unlock More Characters
Master difficult challenges to unlock more characters. Be ready, hardcore players! Because the elite characters are especially hard to unlock!
Unlock Steam achievements
The game is packed with fun and challenging Steam achievements. Can you collect them all?
Pirate Island
Just a simple Day.
Journey with your Wife on a nice Boat.
Supplies are running out.
Stopping at an Island.
Looking for Supplies, leaving your Wife alone at the Beach.
Finding out you are on a Pirate Island.
Meanwhile your Wife is kidnapped by Pirates.
You are coming back and yeah, wasn´t not the best Idea to leave her alone at the Beach, but otherwhile we didn´t have a Reason for what is coming next.
Did i just mentioned that our Hero is a Retired Pirate?
As i said before, just a simple Day.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Information / Review English
Pirate Island is a 3D side-scrolling shooter with platform elements, which was developed by ImperiumGame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIrz0oC5Bls
Gameplay / Story
The Story briefly told:
A nameless hero tries to free his wife from the clutches of evil pirates / skeletons, who was brought back to life by an ancient force through Voodoo-Mgaie. Armed only with a saber / musket this seems impossible, but you love your wife so much that you still try everything possible to get her back in your hands and free her from the clutches of evil. You move on the sections from left to right or back again, your entire adventure will be accompanied by wonderful pieces of music that change again and again and are suitable for this era. The combat system is kept simple. You hit your opponents, evade backwards / forwards or fight them in long-range combat. After defeating them, they usually drop an item that can be useful to you, such as gold etc.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Space Captain McCallery - Episode 1: Crash Landing
Lovely sci-fi short story with fun and weird low-poly-art (if pixel-art can be a genre…), simple shooting, platforming and exploration. The best idea of the game is to take the collectathon pickups and make them not only useful but strategic: fruits and mushrooms heal, provide energy for movement and charge the weapon. Also some cause hallucinations, which makes the already kinda trippy game even better looking. Enemies are basic but not boring goofy/creepy aliens, nicely mixed with enviromental challanges (mostly falling). I enjoyed the ideas and the atmosphere and appreciate the dev fixing some minor bugs and even implementing suggestions only hours after I mentioned them. Waiting for the next game.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
I’m not sure whether it’s the semi-linear storyline, the third-person player view, or the eating mechanic, but something with this game just doesn’t sit right. Where And All Would Cry Beware! was one of my favourite games, the Space Captain McCallery franchise just seems like it’s missing something. Sure, it captures the surreal look and amazing soundtrack presented in so many other Renegade Sector games, but I just don’t see myself coming back to this one.
Whilst all of this is true, I don’t think it’s a necessarily bad game, and so I can’t in good conscience give it a negative review.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Life of Ocean
what kind of work is this
《life of ocean》is a First-person oceanic adventure survival game.
you will start from a desert island. Alone, without any means to call for help, you must do what you can to survive.
when you dont need to worry about food or clothing, there are countless treasures waiting for you under the ocean.
take the Treasure Map you found, camposs and shovel, become the richest adventurer in this ocean!
#### Survive
Health, Hunger, Thirst, Manage and monitor these vitals to continue your adventure. Grilled fish, fresh water, and Edible fruit to stay alive.
fresh water will be the most important resources, because fresh water is the medium of payment with NPC in this world.
#### Crafe Tools
Axe, Pickaxe, Spear, Torch, cutlass,firegun and so much more can all be crafted through an interactive crafting menu.
Ships are the main means of transportation in this game. Players can use ships to transport goods and explore travel.
Dynamic Weather System
This game has a basic day and night cycle, rainy weather, sunny weather, it will extinguish the equipment that uses fire to work on rainy day, such as campfire, barbecues, furnaces, etc.
We will add more weather season systems to the game in the future, such as dry season, wet season, etc.
Interesting treasure mining system
Digging treasures will make the player’s adventures easy and interesting. Before you set off, you need to prepare three items, the treasure map you found, a compass and a shovel.
After digging out the treasure, the player will encounter the skeleton or demon spirit . Beat them will get the key to open the treasure chest.
The rewards of treasure chests are random, also players can choose to sell the treasure directly to NPC for stable rewards.
Future update direction
The current version is enough for you to explore more than ten hours, but many details need to be polished. We will add more plants and animal to enrich the game.
And also enrich the vehicle system, add ghost ships, giant sea monsters and other contendable enemies to create exciting sea navigation.
Pirate of Madagascar Island
Awkward and combat that feels like being constipated in real life is only the beginning of what all is wrong and bad with this game.
Short Version (11 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=154vLeQzD_Q
First Impressions & Long Version & Ideas For Dev Making It Better (52 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W9TMw57ioU
-
Invisible walls. Ugh.
-
You can see the edge of the small maps even though you can’t fall off because of the above mentioned invisible walls. If you’re gonna let us see the edge of the world, please just let us walk off and fall forever so we have a reason to quit! That’s a “win” to me!
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
I like the ocean :)
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Neko Ghost, Jump!
Using the ability to switch between 2D & 3D camera perspectives will be critical to navigating these treacherous lands.
The ghostform with its spiritually-enhanced swordfish allows you take out any enemies in your way.
-
100s of character customization options
-
40 levels divided between 8 biomes
-
Leaderboards in each level to compete against others if you desire
-
Challenging boss fights in each biome
-
Accessibility and Assist options available
-
Razer Chroma RGB-enabled
Nekoworld is a peaceful, fun-loving world inhabited by the Neko people. One day, on Nekoman’s wedding day, Space Dog Pirates invade and abduct all of Nekoman’s friends and family. It’s up to you to help him rescue his bride-to-be and everyone else as well.